Divided by day and night and on the run from authorities, star-crossed young lovers unearth a sinister conspiracy in this compelling romantic thriller.

Seventeen-year-old Soleil Le Coeur is a Smudge—a night dweller prohibited by law from going out during the day. When she fakes an injury in order to get access to and kidnap her newborn niece—a day dweller, or Ray—she sets in motion a fast-paced adventure that will bring her into conflict with the powerful lawmakers who order her world, and draw her together with the boy she was destined to fall in love with, but who is also a Ray.

Set in a vivid alternate reality and peopled with complex, deeply human characters on both sides of the day-night divide, Plus One is a brilliantly imagined drama of individual liberty and civil rights, and a fast-paced romantic adventure story.

Soon the sky had become a blanket of
stars; and then it became heavy, bulging down on us, so thick it was like soup
that I might reach up and stir with my hand if I tried. And finally, to my
relief, Cygnus the Swan and the Great Summer Triangle began to emerge from the
cosmos with the faint, cloudy dragon spine of the edge of our galaxy.

“Oh my god, is that the Milky Way?” he
whispered.

My throat got hot. It was the most
beautiful thing I could ever have hoped to show him. I could be grateful for
one thing that night.

“You’re a brave guy,” I said, my voice
cracking just to make sure I felt like an idiot.

“Why do you say that?”

“It took me ten years not to wad my
body into a tight ball every time I saw the Milky Way.”

He burst out laughing. It was too
loud. Night people don’t belly laugh outside of their homes. He really was a
Ray. I shushed him.

He laughed again, but softer, and then
turned his head to-ward me and said in a low, smiling voice, “A ball?”

“Four hundred billion suns spiraling
through space together. Our solar system just one grain on that galactic
carousel. The carousel itself a speck in the cosmos. And here I am in this
small clearing, on the surface of the earth, as transient and un-noticed to the
universe as the dry blades of grass that are poking into my shirt. It’s too much
to comprehend up there, too enormous, and I’m so small when it’s on top of me.
It frightens me, like I’m being crushed.”

I could feel him staring at me,
although it was almost pitch-black around us, as I poured out my childish
thoughts. After a moment he said, “Holy cow, Plus One.”

“What?” I said defensively.

He settled his head in the cradle of
his arms again and refused to answer. Then he said, “Here on earth, where it counts
. . . you’re not unnoticed.”

~~~~~~

About the Author:

Elizabeth Fama is the author of Plus One (FSG, 2014), Monstrous Beauty (FSG, 2012), a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection and Odyssey Award honor winner, and Overboard (Cricket Books, 2002), an ALA Best Books for Young Adults. She is represented by Sara Crowe of Harvey Klinger, Inc.

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